On Friday, March 20th, the State Health Benefits Design Committee unanimously voted for a solution that finalized the Superior Court decision that unilaterally indexed retiree prescription copays in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The committee was presented with three possible solutions to rectify the overpayment of copays in the aforementioned years. Unfortunately, the monumental task of calculating payments to members would have resulted in another year of delay in payments to our retirees and due to medicare regulations some members would have actually owed money to the federal government.